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Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game
"Crossroads" is a game series from Plaid Hat Games that tests a group of survivors' ability to work together and stay alive while facing crises and challenges from both outside and inside. Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Ga
What is Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game
"Crossroads" is a game series from Plaid Hat Games that tests a group of survivors' ability to work together and stay alive while facing crises and challenges from both outside and inside. Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game, the first title in this series, puts 2-5 players in a small, weakened colony of survivors in a world in which most of humanity is either dead or diseased, flesh-craving monsters. Each player leads a faction of survivors, with dozens of different characters in the game.
Dead of Winter is a meta-cooperative psychological survival game. This means players are working together toward one common victory condition, but for each individual player to achieve victory, they must also complete their personal secret objective, which could relate to a psychological tick that's fairly harmless to most others in the colony, a dangerous obsession that could put the main objective at risk, a desire for sabotage of the main mission, or (worst of all) vengeance against the colony! Games could end with all players winning, some winning and some losing, or all players losing. Work toward the group's goal, but don't get walked all over by a loudmouth who's looking out only for their own interests!
Dead of Winter is an experience that can be accomplished only through the medium of tabletop games, a story-centric game about surviving through a harsh winter in an apocalyptic world. The survivors are all dealing with their own psychological imperatives, but must still find a way to work together to fight off outside threats, resolve crises, find food and supplies, and keep the colony's morale up.
Dead of Winter has players making frequent, difficult, heavily-thematic, wildly-varying decisions that often have them deciding between what's best for the colony and what's best for themselves. The rulebook also includes a fully co-operative variant in which all players work toward the group objective with no personal goals.
Game details
- Players
- 2–5
- Age
- +13
- Duration
- 120 min
- Difficulty
- Heavy
- Type
- Board game
- Year
- 2014
- Mechanics
- Action Points · Area Movement · Dice Rolling
- Categories
- Bluffing · Deduction · Horror
- Designer
- Jonathan Gilmour
- Publisher
- Gemenot
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A true cooperative with no leader effect and hidden roles. If you just add zombies you get one of our favourite games to play at a night party. My brother Gonzalo loves it so hard. Gonzalo: 9.5 Jorge: 8 Average: 8.75
[b]Primera Partida[/b] Muy temático y narrativo. Buen juego
3 to 5 players,best for 4
Its mechanics are very interesting and it's very unique in the zombie genre. I found the 2 player variant pretty pointless since there's no traitor, which is a big part of the game in my oppinion, and some crossroads cards feel thematically broken. I won't ever play it with 2 players. I also recommend playing with high probability of a traitor. We didn't have a traitor in my first two games and, for a moment, I thought this game was not that good. In my oppinion there are much better coop games out there if you "take the traitor mechanic out" of this one.
I don't consider myself a totally boardgamer, but I've played complex games. Well, for me, this is the BEST GAME I've ever played. Didn't play a game with SUCH AMOUNT OF TENSION. Rules are very difficult to explain to other people, they are easy to learn and at last, they are very very easy to play. Theres no victory point track, complex score rules, intrincated actions. The system is very simple (number of actions in one turn) but every action has his mechanich, very very very simple mechanich. The win conditions iare so intuitive and easy to understand, the much you are going to calculate
3-5 players Agosto 2015
sin enfundar en mecatol
Juegazo
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How many players is Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game for?
Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game plays with 2–5 players.
How long does a game take?
A game takes about 120 minutes.
What age is it suitable for?
It is recommended from age 13.
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